Method of making candles.



T. RIOS.

METHOD OF MAKING CANDLES.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 30. 1914.

1,178,875. Patented Apr. 11, 1916.

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METHOD OF MAKING CANDLES.

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METHOD OF MAKING CANDLES.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 30, 191-4.

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METHOD OF MAKING CANDLES.

1 ToaZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS Rios, a citizen of Mexico, residing at the city and county of San Francisco and State-of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Methods of Making Candles,

of which'the following is a specification.

' ratus for the practice of'the art.

The invention consists of the process and the apparatus for the practice of the process for making candles.

It also comprises details of construction .which will be more fully explained by'reference to thefiaccompanying drawings, in wh1ch Figure 1 is a side elevation partly broken away. Fig. 2 is an end view of the machine. Fig. 3 .is a vertical cross section. 1 Fig. 4 is a diagrammatic view of the initial or half mold rolls. Fig. 5 is a similar viewof the finishing rolls. Fig. 6 shows a form of candle made by the invention.

By this invention candles, one form of which is shown at A, are made of a batch of candle stock of suitable plasticity and material, this being subjected to a drawing ac "tion through suitable means and partly formed. During the forming, a'wick is introduced and the forming continued until the candle is completed.

A indicates a frameof appropriate type, bearing at one end a suitably driven master or sun gear 2, grouped angularly about and meshed with Which are three intermediate or pinion gears 4, 5 and 6. The pinions 4,

5 and 6 drive respective gears 4 5 and 6 The pinions 4 and 5 are secured upon parallel shafts 7 in adjustable boxes 8 on opposite sides of the axis of the frame A and each carries a roll 9 provided with parallel, circumferential grooves 10 of semi-elliptical cross section, the depth being about onehalf the major axis. The grooves are closely Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 11, 1915.

Application filed November 30, 1914. Serial No. 874,735.

arranged so that the dividing walls termi nate in a'thin, knife-likeed-ge. Superposed upon the grooved rolls 9 are'smooth cylinders .11 adjustable to contact therewith by vsliding bearings 8 supporting shafts 13 of the rolls 11. The meshed gears 4 and 5 are secured upon the cylinder shafts 13.

' ,Mounted upon parallel shafts 14, below the plane of the rolls 9, are cooperating rolls 15, each with semicircular, parallel, "circumferential' grooves 16 equal in width to the grooves 10 of the upper rolls 9 and in vertical alinement therewith. The shafts 14 carry v the meshed gears 6+6. Projecting opposltely from the upper sides, of the rolls 9are feed tables, upon which stock B from which candles are to be made is placed; This material is advanced between the cylindersll and their respective grooved rolls 9 and is pressed into the parallel half-round grooves 10 where it is molded into parallel, half-round bars, flat side toward the center or axis of the machine. a

Just beneath the presser cylinders-11ers deflectors 17 which positively direct the molded'barsjdowntoward throat plates 18 which converge toward the tops of the lower ad acent finishing rolls 9. The half-round bars move down into the line of circular between are brought flat-side together and apertures formed by the alined grooves 16 i of the close'rolls 15, and while passing therea change of form from that of slightly e1lip- I tic to that of circular in cross section, as shown inFlgs. 4 and 5.

The wick may be introduced duringthe molding of the candles by anyappropriate 19. extending between the throat plates18 and having perforations 20, alined with; the

centers of the coordinate grooves 16 so as to lead wick material, as cords 21 ,;from bundles 22 centrally'through the circular apertures at theplane, ofthe horizontal diameters of therolls 15. As the tallow,

wax, paraflin, or other material utilized,

' passes between the finishing rolls 15, the

means, inthiscase comprising a guiderail I what I claim and desire to secure by Letters of the rolls. Thu if the grooves each in-- clude two segments and there are ten grooves, one revolution of the finishing rolls will produce twenty candles. Thus by this process a complete candle may be made in a very short period of time from a firm but ductile material. The process consists of molding bars of the material, introducing a Wick between the bars, and pressing thebars together to embrace the wick, the pressing operation also finishing the candle by imparting to it the desired shape.

The operation of the machine is as follows: After aseries of wick bundles has been positioned and the wick guide threaded,the

machine is started by the application of power from a suitable source. Candle stock is then placed upon the tables and advanced against the initial presser and forming rolls 11 and 9, one set of which is on each side of the frame. These rolls press the stock into bars of semi-elliptic cross section which are deflected into the space between the subsequent and finishing rolls '15 between which the wicks hang. These rolls press the opposing half-round bars together upon the intervening wick and by their rolling action shape and compress the candles. The shap ing rolls l5'also cut the cylindrical candle bars into pieces of suitable length and at the same time reduce or tip the candles at one end of each.

Having thus described my invention,

Patent is 1. The method of manufacturing candles from plastic material which consists in forming longitudinal sections of the candle, introducing a wick material between the sections, and upon the wick.

2. An improvement in the art of manufacturing candles which consists in forming strips from plastic material, introducing a wick material between said strips, pressing said strips together upon the wick,

pressing said sections together j and severing the compressed strips intopieces.

3. An improvement inthe art of manufacturing candles which consists informing strips from plastic material, introducing a. wick material between said strips, pressing said strips together upon the wick, and shaping and severing the compressed strips into pieces.

4. The method of making candles in a continuous operation which consists of shaping longitudinal sections from candle stock, running said sections together and introducing a wick material between them, and severing the resulting bar into candles.

5. The method of manufacturing candles which consists of separately shaping strips from batches of candle stock into longitudinal sections by running the same through shaping devices simultaneously, running said sections together between pressing devices to form a candle bar, introducing a wick material between said sections before they are pressed together, and severing the pressed resulting bar into candle lengths.

6. A method of making candles in a continuous operation which consists of simultaneously shaping a plurality of longitudinal sections from candle stock by running the stock through oppositely disposed shaping devices, directing opposite sections together between pressing devices, introducing a wick material between the sections as they are pressed together in pairs, and severing the resulting bars into candle lengths as the same are passed through the pressing de vices. I

7. The method of manufacturing candles Y in a continuous operation which consists of separately shaping under pressure strips from batches of candle stock, simultaneously runn ng said strips together underpressure and from opposite directions upon a wick material which is continuously introduced between the running strips, and severing the compressed resultant bar into pieces.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS RIOS.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. HERRING, ANGELO 'RIOS.

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Washington, D. G. 

